15.1% ▼ -13.5%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.5%
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Hunterview · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Hunterview
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people provide unpaid childcare in Hunterview than in other parts of the country. This is a community where 40.9% of residents care for children without pay, a figure far above the national average. Other forms of community service and support are also common here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is slightly more common here than in New South Wales, with 15.1% of people giving their time. This is about the same as the national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common, with 24.3% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework, well above the national figure of 20.7%. This trend is consistent with the high rate of unpaid childcare and the 13.4% of residents providing other types of unpaid care.
13.4% ▲ +61.8%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
40.9% ▼ -3.0%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.2%
- 2016: 40.9%
- 2021: 40.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.3% ▼ -6.8%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.1%
- 2016: 24.8%
- 2021: 24.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
Defence service
People who served in the Australian Defence Force.
A much higher proportion of people here have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas. At 5.8%, this is well above the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
5.8%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who have ever served in the Australian Defence Force (currently or previously).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Hunterview [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11962/hunterview/topic/community